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# Re: Inter-moo communications?

- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 23:38:31 PST
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    Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.3.91.960222221617.12856B-100000@monkey.sbay.org>
    By author:    "Steven R. Loomis" <srl@monkey.sbay.org>
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    >  Hello, all.. I'm trying to set up some simple communications between two
    > MOOs, basically an inter-MOO gateway.  I was thinking of having an object
    > on each side open an outbound connection to the other MOO.
    >  Then if someone on moo "A" wanted to send the message "foo" to the other
    > side, then the object on A which had the communciations open would cause
    > a verb on $login on moo B to be called. Two half duplex channels = one
    > full duplex.  Is there a better way to do this?

    Yes, have the other MOO actually *log in*, say as "fooMOO".  Then use
    standard MOO commands, or better yet, a read() loop to read the data.
    Much more efficient.

    >  Also, I have a simple gateway that lets one browse the MOO objects from
    > a web browser. Right now, a cgi-bin opens up a new connection to the MOO
    > and runs a hidden verb on $login, grabs the output, and closes the
    > connection.
    >

    Yes, you can have the MOO trap HTTP commands directly.

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